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Next season is probably a lost cause. The coaches and GM know it but would never say. This offseason is very important for their longer term future. They need to get the QB situation figured out for the long term, which pretty much requires them to draft a QB in the first round, probably moving up by trading with San Diego. I would seriously look at trade offers for Jefferson. Really don’t want to lose him but I’m not sure it is worth paying any non QB 30+ million a year, especially if it’s guaranteed money. A top QB along with good offensive and defensive lines will give you a shot at a Super Bowl.

If that’s the case then I would allow just as many reserved seats at the Ralph for their players.

I believe Tyree has one more season.

Whether they had any timeouts or not, the worst play you can make there with 3 seconds left is exactly what they did. Not prepared for game situations. That’s on the coaching staff. They had all season to prepare the team for various scenarios and in a playoff game with the season on the line you blew it.

Team was very poorly prepared for what to do if Omaha scored. There was still 3.2 seconds left, you should be able to quickly get it to half court and get a timeout and have enough time to get a realistic shot chance. Instead the only plan looks like they were hoping Omaha would miss. After the made shot the clock doesn’t start till the ball is touched. So we toss it in about three feet from the baseline and hope he can hit a running half court shot. Great strategy, great coaching.

WTF was Sather thinking, every time Omaha brought the ball up the court they were rolling it till the got to mid court. Saved a lot of time on the clock. Very poor coaching.

SDSU pretty much a lock to go to the NC$$ tourney.

No excuse for losing that game. Kings charge was a huge turning point. Just f’ing stupid playing.

Choke city

Pathetic

Massive choke in progress.

Too many 3 point attempts for the game situation.

The only reason this is close right now is UND has been knocking down threes. Not likely to continue at that pace. They need to take care of the ball and get some scoring down low.

18-17 but they will find themselves down double digits quickly if they don’t start taking better care of the ball.

Yes

Miami was 1-21-2 during the regular season. If we can’t sweep them in two why would we ever believe they could get to the frozen four much less win it.

I’ve got no confidence at this point. Goaltending for the entire season has been disappointing. Pretty hard to win a championship with this level of defense/goaltending. Maybe it’s not impossible but it is improbable. We continue to make stupid plays in our own end, been a season long problem but has been very noticeable this past month. Played eight games with UNO & CC and came away with 6 of the 24 points.

Not sure I understand the fascination with Sandelin. In 24 seasons with Duluth he has a grand total of zero regular season conference championships and five second place finishes. He has made eight NC$$ tournaments. Not saying he is a bad coach but I just don't understand why anyone would think he should be the next coach at UND.

What the hell was that tonight?

The old WCHA had more difficult competition on top half of the league while the NCHC may have a bit better on the bottom half of the league. For me, the old WCHA was definitely a more difficult league to win a regular season championship. You needed to beat MN, Wisconsin and Denver - teams that have a lot of history, tradition and national championships, in addition to having St. Cloud, Duluth, and some very good CC teams.

Hakstol: Made tourney in all 11 seasons. 7 frozen fours, no championships. Overall tourney record of 17-11. There were only 2 years where they didn’t win at least one tournament game. Berry: Made tourney in 6 of 9 seasons* 1 frozen four, 1 championship. Overall tourney record of 5-3. There have been 5 years where they didn’t win a tournament game, not including the Covid year or this year. * Giving him credit for making the 2020 tourney that never occurred due to Covid. That team was a lock. Also includes the current season. Frozen four and overall record subject to change with this seasons results. Hakstol was one win from a championship his first season while Berry got it done in his first year.

Much better game, congrats on winning the conference title. Now let’s win a few more titles this season.

Fortunate, very fortunate to win. Need a better game tomorrow to get the sweep.

Group hug

This team makes way too many mistakes and has too inconsistent goaltending to have any realistic chance to win a NC$$ championship. The runway to fix these problems is growing shorter and shorter. They need to make significant improvements in these areas and I frankly have no faith in this coaching staff to get it done. They can look like world beaters one game and the most inept mistake prone team in another.